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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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